One cannot but welcome the publication of a regional atlas which attempts to represent in detail a relatively small section of Australia. The editors of An Atlas of New England, and the University of New. England, which supported its publication financially, are to be commended upon their initiative. However, the success of such an innovation in the representation of regional resources and development issues would seem to depend closely upon the existence of a programme to develop and publish a series of such atlases for various regions of Australia. Although the contributors, drawn principally but not exclusively from geographers on the staffs of The University of New England and the Armidale College of Advanced Education, have put together an interesting and useful documentation of ‘their’ region, it would be comforting to know that this was part of an ongoing programme to refine the more general representations of Australia contained in publications such as the Atlas of Australia’s Resources.